Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (OPE1778588739)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Open WebUI's Vulnerability and lateral movement inside company's environment.
- Overview of affected data sets, including SSNs and PHI, and why they materially increase incident severity.
- How Rankiteo’s incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score.
- How this cyber incident impacts Open WebUI Rankiteo cyber scoring and cyber rating.
- Rankiteo’s MITRE ATT&CK correlation analysis for this incident, with associated confidence level.
Full Incident Analysis Transcript
In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Open WebUI breach identified under incident ID OPE1778588739.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Open WebUI's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/open-webui, the number of followers: 762093, the industry type: Software Development and the number of employees: 2 employees
After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 749 and after the incident was 743 with a difference of -6 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.
In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on Open WebUI and their customers.
Open WebUI recently reported "Critical Unpatched XSS Flaw in Open WebUI Enables 1-Click RCE and Account Takeover", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Security researchers have disclosed a severe stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Open WebUI, allowing attackers to achieve remote code execution (RCE) or full account hijacking with minimal user interaction.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Open WebUI (versions up to 0.7.2), and exposing Local storage tokens, chat logs, user enumeration data, profile images.
In response, and began remediation that includes No official patch available as of version 0.7.2. Users advised to avoid uploading SVG files or restrict Open WebUI access, and stakeholders are being briefed through Public disclosure by security researchers due to lack of maintainer response.
The case underscores how Publicly disclosed; unpatched as of version 0.7.2, teams are taking away lessons such as Importance of strict file-type validation for user uploads, timely patching of critical vulnerabilities, and transparent communication between security researchers and maintainers, and recommending next steps like Avoid uploading SVG files in Open WebUI until a patch is released, Restrict Open WebUI access to trusted users only and Monitor for suspicious API calls (e.g., `/api/v1/tools/create`, `/api/v1/chats/all`), with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Organizations using Open WebUI should assess exposure and implement mitigations until a patch is available.
Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.
MITRE ATT&CK® Correlation Analysis
Rankiteo's analysis has identified several MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with this incident, each with varying levels of confidence based on available evidence. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating severe stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Open WebUI and User Execution: Malicious Link (T1204.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 1-Click RCE attacks...minimal user interaction. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating embedded malicious JavaScript in SVG executes in victim’s browser and JavaScript (T1059.007) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating malicious JavaScript in base64-encoded SVG files. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts: Local Accounts (T1078.003) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating administrator/Privileged User Compromise...payload silently calls Open WebUI’s API. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Steal Web Session Cookie (T1539) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating payload extracts local storage tokens and chat logs and Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating local storage tokens...transmitting them to attacker-controlled server. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating chat logs, user enumeration data, profile images compromised and Automated Collection (T1119) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating payload transmits data to attacker-controlled server. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating payload transmits data to attacker-controlled server. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating reverse shell for full RCE via Open WebUI’s API. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Endpoint Denial of Service: Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating potential full system compromise via RCE and Account Access Removal (T1531) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating full account hijacking with minimal user interaction. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Open WebUI Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/open-webui/incident/OPE1778588739
- Open WebUI CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/open-webui
- Open WebUI Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ope1778588739-open-webui-vulnerability-march-2026/
- Open WebUI CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/open-webui/history
- Open WebUI CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://cyberpress.org/open-webui-file-upload-vulnerability/
- Rankiteo A.I CyberSecurity Rating methodology: https://www.rankiteo.com/Images/rankiteo_algo.pdf
- Rankiteo TPRM Scoring methodology: https://static.rankiteo.com/model/rankiteo_tprm_methodology.pdf